Posts Tagged: oil flow in winter

You don’t have to warm up your engine to get good oil flow in winter

If you’re really concerned about getting oil flowing in winter, drive it, don’t idle it It’s a myth that you have to warm up your engine to get oil flow in winter. Oil flow in winter has nothing to do with gravity — it’s about pumpability Amsoil has a youtube video that shows conventional and synthetic oil being poured from beakers at -40C. The results show the conventional oil barely moving, while the synthetic oil flows! What you are seeing in this video is a comparison of conventional oil’s Kinematic … Read More